Walter Chandoha. Cats. Photographs 1942-2018

"The unknowable, endlessly fascinating character of cats remains, captured better by Chandoha than anyone before or since." * Vanity Fair * "Chandoha's esteemed career set a standard for the generations of feline photographers that followed." * Wired * "His legacy is more than assured-Chandoha literally wrote the book on his field." * CNN * "Far from a kitschy cuteness overload, the new book is a celebration of Chandoha's long, prolific career, his skill as a photographer, and yes, all things cats." * Artnet * "A joy of a book." * The Times * "...the purr-fect gift for cat fans." * The Los Angeles Times *

Susan Michals is the founder of CatCon and Cat Art Show the two biggest cat-centric, pop culture events in the world. She is a former television producer and journalist whose work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, artnet News, The Observer, and Vanity Fair among others. Reuel Golden is the former editor of the British Journal of Photography and the Photography editor at TASCHEN. His TASCHEN titles include: Mick Rock: The Rise of David Bowie, both London and New York Portrait of a City books, The Rolling Stones, Her Majesty, Football in the 1970s, the National Geographic editions, the David Bailey SUMO and Andy Warhol. Polaroids. Walter Chandoha (1920-2019) was a combat photographer in the Second World War, before a chance encounter with a cat led him on a path that would shape his professional career. He is regarded as the world's greatest domestic animal photographer with a career spanning over seven decades and an archive of more than 200,000 photographs. His photographs have appeared on over 300 magazine covers, thousands of advertisements, and were regularly featured in magazines such as Life, Look, and their equivalents around the world.